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Articles Posted Week: Dec. 29th, 2025 — Jan. 4th, 2026 (333/5/10)
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Security Boulevard
How AutoSecT Helps Security Teams Handle 1000+ Endpoints Effortlessly?
The MSSP Security Management Platform: Enabling Scalable, Intelligence-Driven Cyber Defense
Types Of Authentication: Complete Guide To Authentication Methods & Mechanisms
2025, The Year We Stopped Building Features And Started Building Outcomes
Platform Engineering
Best of 2025: 5 Crucial Benefits Of Internal Developer Platforms
Best of 2025: Build vs. Buy: The Platform Engineer’s Conundrum
Best of 2025: How Platform Engineering Turns Compliance Into A Built-In Advantage
Techstrong.IT
Best of 2025: Atlas Data Storage To Develop Synthetic DNA Data Storage
Best of 2025: Fortifying The Multicloud: Three-Pronged Approach To Resilient Cloud Operations
Best of 2025: Gartner Forecasts 7.9% It Spending Boost Despite Enterprise Uncertainty
Careers
Salesforce News
IBM News
SentinelOne News
TechTalk Summits - Analyst
Trust is the cornerstone of enterprise AI adoption. This session explores how Power Platform helps you ensure secure orchestration of agents, delivers enterprise-grade governance, security, and compliance to ensure responsible innovation. Learn how to innovate responsibly while accelerating business transformation. Register
Security Boulevard
Are Passkeys Ready For Use In Enterprises?
Why we even care about api testing...more
How AutoSecT Helps Security Teams Handle 1000+ Endpoints Effortlessly?
Managing security across 1000+ endpoints is no longer a scale problem alone; it is a complexity problem. Modern enterprise environments are dynamic, hybrid, and API-driven. Cloud workloads, remote employees, containerized services, and third-party integrations constantly introduce new endpoints....more
The MSSP Security Management Platform: Enabling Scalable, Intelligence-Driven Cyber Defense
Introduction: Why MSSPs Need a New Security Backbone...more
Types Of Authentication: Complete Guide To Authentication Methods & Mechanisms
The comeback of the phone call in a digital world...more
2025, The Year We Stopped Building Features And Started Building Outcomes
Let me be real with you. 2025 wasn’t about launching a hundred features and patting ourselves on the back. It was about asking one uncomfortable question: Are we actually helping security teams reduce exposure, or are we just giving them another dashboard to stare at?...more
Platform Engineering
Best of 2025: 5 Crucial Benefits Of Internal Developer Platforms
Nowadays, developers face a paradox: While technology advances rapidly, the complexity of managing infrastructure slows them down. Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) solve this challenge by streamlining workflows, reducing cognitive load and enhancing productivity....more
Best of 2025: Build vs. Buy: The Platform Engineer’s Conundrum
Congratulations - you’ve either built a platform or you’re deep into the process of creating one. But here’s the uncomfortable reality: Many engineering teams conflate ‘building the platform’ with the ultimate goal....more
Best of 2025: How Platform Engineering Turns Compliance Into A Built-In Advantage
For many IT teams, compliance has long been a bottleneck - slowing projects, creating friction between developers and security teams, and introducing manual processes that add risk rather than reduce it....more
Techstrong.IT
Best of 2025: Atlas Data Storage To Develop Synthetic DNA Data Storage
Atlas Data Storage, having been spun off from parent company Twist Bioscience, is a pioneering startup focused on creating enterprise data storage applications based the unique properties of synthetic DNA....more
In this session, we are dismantling the fear of moving. We will move beyond 'one-click' promises and show you how to execute an Intelligent Migration, one that analyzes your estate, separates the 'good stuff' from the clutter, and modernizes your delivery pipelines rather than just copying technical debt. Register
Best of 2025: Fortifying The Multicloud: Three-Pronged Approach To Resilient Cloud Operations
Cloud service providers offer highly specialized services, requiring enterprises to onboard two or more partners to access innovation, proprietary technical capabilities and best-fit solutions....more
Best of 2025: Gartner Forecasts 7.9% It Spending Boost Despite Enterprise Uncertainty
Good news for the tech sector: worldwide IT spending will grow by a robust 7.9% in 2025, according to a mid-year forecast by Gartner. Yet the Gartner report includes statistics that reveal significant uncertainty even as the headline is positive....more
Careers
11 In-Demand Cloud Roles Companies Are Hiring For
Increased cloud adoption has companies adding new roles to ensure success in the cloud. From security architects to FinOps managers, here’s where they’re expanding their IT talent rosters....more
I Took Harvard’s Free Online Coding Classes To Better Catch AI’s Errors - And They’re Legit
Harvard’s free programming classes teach you how to think, debug, and adapt in an AI-driven world where knowing code matters more than ever....more
Salesforce News
Building The Agentic Enterprise: Salesforce News And Stories That Shaped 2025
2025 was the year Salesforce translated its Agentforce vision into reality. What emerged was not merely an expanded product line ready for the era of AI agents but an entirely new operating model: the Agentic Enterprise....more
In 2025, AI Grew Up - And Learned To Play By The Rules
One thing is clear to us at Salesforce: enterprise AI has entered a new phase. Over the past three years, large language models (LLMs) proved what was possible. They reasoned, summarized, and conversed in ways that reshaped expectations for software almost overnight. But as those capabilities became familiar, our conversations with customers began to change....more
IBM News
The Operational Technology Threat Landscape: Insights From IBM X-Force
The world’s most sophisticated threat actors are moving faster, operating quieter, and targeting the very heartbeat of modern society: operational technology (OT) and critical infrastructure....more
IBM Storage Ceph Meets IBM Storage Deep Archive
Simplifying data archival with cost-effective, policy-based retrieval...more
SentinelOne News
SentinelOne Unveils New Innovations And Integrations With AWS To Accelerate Customers’ AI Initiatives At AWS Re:Invent 2025
SentinelOne launches integrations with AWS Security Hub and new Amazon CloudWatch capabilities; adds Purple AI MCP Server, Observo AI data pipeline to AWS Marketplace...more
TechTalk Summits - Analyst
TechTalk Tuesday (Jan 20th)
In today’s environment, speed and execution separate winners from the rest. The trends we’ve tracked for years - AI and generative AI, cloud maturity, data modernization, and true digital leadership - are no longer emerging; they’re table stakes for competitive advantage....more
In this forward-looking session, Cerby CEO Bel Lepe and investor and former CIO Yousuf Khan will break down what the next 18 months mean for IAM and security leaders. They will examine which legacy identity practices are slowing progress, how to modernize governance at scale, and where AI is creating new risks as well as new tooling opportunities. Register
Upcoming Webinars
Wednesday, Jan 21, 2026 ET
Thursday, Jan 22, 2026 ET
Architecting Trustworthy AI: From Design Principles to Live Defense (Jan 22nd) -- 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Tuesday, Jan 27, 2026 ET
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